Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

6 months ago

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

The pharmacy team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Pain and Palliative Care as a fixed term part time contract as maternity leave cover. This role forms part of our progress towards advanced level of practice for pharmacists.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively as part of the respective multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist medicines optimisation, outstanding leadership and innovative service development and improvement. The role will encompass delivery of safe, efficient and cost-effective pain and palliative care services to patients within South Tees NHS Foundation Trust and across the wider integrated care system linking secondary care with primary care and regional networks.

Applying candidates should be enthusiastic, passionate and possess great interpersonal skills. They will be keen to take on a new challenge and able to work using their own initiative to innovatively balance and manage the requirements of the specialist pain, palliative care and hospice teams, patients, carers and other stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for leading, delivering and evaluating clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across the specialist pain and palliative care teams.
Ensuring optimum medicines management within pain and palliative care services, which are provided in accordance with relevant professional, ethical, legal and locally agreed policies, procedures, guidelines and standards.

Providing a direct clinical pharmacy service to Teesside Hospice 1 session (4 hours) per week.

Providing specialist pharmacist advice, guidance, and information on treatment choices across the multidisciplinary teams in pain, palliative care, and Teesside Hospice.

Attend and actively participate in specialist ward rounds, clinic settings and other patient reviews.

Provide education & training across pharmacy and the multidisciplinary teams within pain and palliative care.

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

Explore leadership within the NHS Promote Trust Values and Behaviours Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Details of the full job description and person specification are available to view when you click to apply for the vacancy and click on the about this job link and the documents will be attached at the bottom of the screen.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting Experience of providing directorate level pharmacist services budgetary reports, drug usage reviews Developments of protocols and policies Experience of developing strong professional relationships with other healthcare professionals Experience of leading and contributing to relevant research, audit and service improvement projects Experience of involvement in multidisciplinary service development

Desirable criteria

Staff leadership and management experience Experience in mentorship and training for other staff Teaching experience in clinical and classroom setting

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate clinical qualification Pharmacist independent prescribing accreditation or actively working towards qualification Evidence of CPD and ongoing education

Desirable criteria

Relevant postgraduate clinical qualification Membership with Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Working towards RPS advanced clinical practice or consultancy frameworks

Knowledge and skills

Essential criteria

Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to clinical practice Involvement in development of evidence-based clinical guidelines, polices and protocols Strong knowledge of medicines information resources

Desirable criteria

Membership of regional/national/international specialist interest groups relevant to field of practice

Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
 South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.

As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.

If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at 

The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.

Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.

Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.

Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.

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